Actually, the first time I ever worked with the partnership of the City of New York was on the question of the frequency of our subways. We had launched a campaign of fix the MTA in Albany and we were working together with the partnership to try and increase funding for subways. And we won. At the time it was $35 million to do so. But we know that it is still far from what is needed in this city. We talk about ourselves having a world class city with world class public transit. (33:44–33:55)
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